garage sales

100-mile garage sale is this weekend

May 3, 2018

By the time you read this, chances are good that in a garage, yard or driveway along the Mississippi, garage sale weekend has already begun. The annual 100-mile Garage Sale officially runs May 3 through May 6 in river communities in both Minnesota and Wisconsin from Hastings to Winona. This week’s...

100-mile garage sale is May 4-7

Apr 20, 2017

From Winona to Red Wing and Prescott, Wis., down to Fountain City, Wis., the 100-mile garage sale returns to the Mississippi River Valley May 4-7. People can view sale listings or post their own for free at 100milegaragesale.org. The Lake City Shopper offers discount rates for garage sale ads paid...

4,660-mile garage sale

May 26, 2016

Carrie Lichtblau and Randy Olson look over a quilt-in-progress displayed last weekend during the 4,660-mile garage sale held at Lake City United Methodist Church. People could purchase a square for the quilt to support the church’s mission team which will spend a week 4,660 miles away in Santa Cru...

A few items left over after garage sale

May 11, 2016

Turns out you can sell just about anything, or try, in a yard sale. Andy Christian had a 27-foot sale boat for $1,500 and a smaller motorboat for $600 in front of the house next to the Sunset Motel, which he operates with his wife. Jean Furchner of Lake City sold her handmade pottery and other...

The Old Curmudgeon - 5-5-16

May 4, 2016

The old Lake City jailhouse (across Marion Street from the drug store and Pearl Button Co.) has a new life beginning tomorrow! Friday. It will become the Sherlock-Matheny Studio. The professional artists will be open on weekends (Friday through Sunday). Jean Sherlock and Dave Matheny live just a...